Fresh From Futurelooks

Despite reports to the contrary, it's starting to sound like Microsoft is very interested in offering a subscription-based version of Windows 10 that would effectively work the same way as Office 365. Indeed, a trademark for the term "Windows 365" has been unearthed and it was filed by Microsoft to the United States Patent and Trademark Office website.

For the longest time, I led a laptop-only computing experience. I had a docking station at the home office that was connected to an external monitor, mouse, keyboard and some other peripherals, but having a notebook meant I could go anywhere and do anything... except my laptop was sluggish, slow and underpowered. If you want to have some real gaming …

In April of 2014, Microsoft officially retired Windows XP. But for corporations that still use the operating system for any number of reasons, Microsoft still offered the ability for companies to extend their service agreements through what they called a "Custom Service Agreement" (CSA). This CSA provides security updates to the OS, on a firm by firm basis, with contracts …

The GPU market seems to always be moving. With new products and new drivers showing up, performance can ebb and flow. PC World decided to freeze time, and test every current AMD or NVIDIA GPU in a marathon flurry of testing, giving us a snap shot, of how every GPU performs compared to one another today.

Seagate and Western digital have had a busy couple of weeks, fielding questions and concerns about NSA backdoors being planted into their hard drive firmware. While the both manufacturers assert that they had not knowingly provided access to their firmware, in reality, anyone could gain access to it by stealing it. Once your drive is infected though, it appears …

Windows 8 isn't perfect, but it got better with Windows 8.1. It sure would be a lot more perfect if it supported only a limited amount of hardware, versus pretty much every piece of hardware, but it wouldn't be Windows. It wouldn't be the heart and soul of every PC DIY build where one wants the most choice in …

If you're calling Lenovo's SuperFish Adware debacle dumb, you're just being nice. First they claimed it was a technology feature that benefited users. Then they turn tail, and throw the SuperFish Adware under the bus, when the entire Internet turned against them, and for good reason. Whoever thought this was a good idea, is definitely jobless right now.

Apple likes to be number one. Number one in profits, number one in sales, and now they are number one in the amount of vulnerabilities in both their desktop and mobile OS. I guess when they say that "Mac's don't get viruses" they might be sort of right. Instead, they might be easier to targets for hacks and exploits. Not …